Molding and hook.



\ Patented Sept. 24, |90I.

H. 0. CHASE.

MDLDING AND HOOK.

(Application led July 8, 1899.)

Ilm-683,248.

(Nn Mogel.)

NTTED STATES PATENT Futon.

HARRISON O'IIS CHASE, OF SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA.

MOLDING ANDI-IOOK.

SPECIFICATION forming* part of Letters Patent N o. 683,248, datedSeptember 24, 1901.

Application tiled July 6,1899. Serial No. 722,926. (No model.)

To 1f/ZZ whom it ntcty concern:

Be it known that I, HARRISON Oris CHASE, a citizen of the United States,residing at San Francisco, in the county of San Francisco and State ofCalifornia, have invented certain new and useful Improvements inMoldings and Hooks, of which the following is a specification.

`My invention is a simple and convenient means of support-ing hooks,brackets, dac., on walls and other convenient locations; and it consistspartly in a novel construction of a strip or molding for holding thehook or other device and partly in anovelconstruction of the supporteddevice to adapt it to such strip or molding.

The object of my invention is to support closet hooks, picture hooks,wall brackets, and other devices in such a way that no special fasteningmeans are required and so that the devices thus supported shall beeasily movable and adjustable to different positions. Takingcloset-hooks as an illustration, it is the common practice to screw suchhooks at intervals to a strip or molding fastened to the wall. Theintervals are such as the builders idea of convenience dictates; but thesubsequent user often finds it desirable to change them and is unable todo so. Picture-hooks, as commonly supported on moldings, are capable ofbeing changed and moved; but this is accomplished with great difficulty,and it is usually necessary to take down the picture,ad j ust thehook,and rehang the picture.

My invention is embodied, first, in a hollow molding or strip having anopen longitudinal slot, and, second, ina supported device, such as ahook, adapted to fit within such molding and project through the slotand be easily and readily movable longitudinally.

My invention is confined to the details of construction of the hookcombined with the molding.

The invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which-Figure 1 is a side elevation of the hook, showing the molding inlongitudinal section. Fig. 2 is a sectional view of the molding andhook. Fig. 3 is a sectional view of one form of molding, and Fig. 4 asimilar View of a modified form.

Referring to Figs. l and 2, A represents a strip, which in this case iscomposed of two lengths of molding similarly constructed and cooperatingto produce a single recessed seat. The rear face of each piece ofmolding is rabbeted, as shown at a, the rabbet on one opposing that onthe other. The two pieces of molding are secured to a wall or othersupport by screws or otherwise, in such proximity that an open slot cextends longitudinally between their front faces which communicates withthe inner longitudinal chamber formed by the opposing rabbets, givingthe effect of a hollow strip having an open slot communicating with theinterior. The same effect is produced by constructing the strips asshown in the sections in Figs. 3 and 4f. In Fig. 3, however, themoldings A are secured to a support, which is a back piece or pieces B,so as to be a complete article of manufacture adapted to be made andsold in suitable lengths and attached to a wall or elsewhere. The backpiece B may be continuous along the Whole' length; but it is evidentthat separate pieces can be secured at intervals and form a completestructure. The part or parts B can be secured by small nails or screwsor can be glued to the molding-strips. In Fig. 4 I have shown a slottedand chambered molding or strip A2, formed in -one piece. All thesestrips can be composed of any suitable material, such as wood or metal,and may be plain or ornamental to any extent. In connection with thesehollow strips or moldings any desired kind of hook, bracket, or othersupporting device can be used when provided with proper means ofattachment. The hook shown herein is formed in two parts and soconstructed that it may be securely clamped or locked in the desiredposition, this being a particularly desirable feature when it is to besecured in vertically-arranged molding. Within the enlarged or widerportion of the slot in the molding the head g of the hook is located,from the central portion of which the shank portion d extendsthrough thenarrow portion of the slot. This shank portion has a hole tapped thereininto which a threaded extension of the hook proper is screwed. Byturning the hook the head g and disk c, carried by the hook proper, aredrawn toward each other to securely clamp the hook'to the l screwed-intothe end of said shank, substanmolding. Y l tiaily as described.

Having thus fully described my invention, 1n testimony whereof I haveaixed my what I claim as new, and desire to secure by signature, inpresence of two Witnesses, this 5 Letters Patent, is- 26th day of June,1899.

The combination With a picture-rod having a. T-'shaped slot therein, ofa head tted to HARRISON OTIS CHASE the Wider portion of the slot and ashank Witnesses: tted to the narrower portion thereof, of the y L. W.SEELY, Io hook proper having a threaded extension W. B. HENRY.

